My hope is that this series will offer my readers a chance to consider the names, characteristics and descriptions of our God in the Word.
The remaining Names of God in this series might be considered descriptors, or characteristics of the Lord. We have reviewed the three primary Names of God, along with nineteen compound Names of God in our previous posts. As we venture through these descriptors of our God, I hope we will recognize all the many characteristics of our God that we tend to take for granted.
The Word is truly rich with descriptions of the Living God, and this effort of searching in the Word was quite illuminating. He truly is the ultimate subject of the Word, and His revelation of self-descriptions, or the accolades offered Him by His priests, prophets, kings apostles and faithful truly is a blessing.
May the Name of the Lord be praised, and by thinking on His name, may you have a blessed day.
| 129 |
| FAITHFUL |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. |
| Our next ten names of God will include the core thought of faith, faithful and faithfulness. Ten names that emphasize not our faithfulness, weak and inconsistent as it may be, but of how faithful our eternal and all powerful God is. Now within the next ten passages, one of the names of God is Faithfulness. I will be addressing the difference in these names in that post, but for this post I would like to consider what it means to be faithful in relation to the person of God. To be faithful speaks of the Lord’s nature. He is faithful. It is His nature to be trustworthy, to be reliable, to be One we can count on. He is not One who speaks glowing promises and then forgets them, or decides something else later. We may think He means something, and when provides, we are surprised, but I fear that is simply a matter of our not paying attention to His words, His message. Or better yet. The realization of His promise was provided to us and in the provision, looking back at the promise, was much much more than we considered when we originally “thought” we understood the promise. Such is the case in the provision of the promise of a Savior. The promises of the Savior in the Old Testament did not fully describe the incredible realization of Jesus. When Paul speaks of God being faithful in our verse of choice for this topic, he speaks of God “doing it”. He will keep His promise. Paul can claim this because it is the nature of God to fulfill His word. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He can surely sanctify and keep us blameless at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. |
I would love to hear of your favorite name, characteristic or description of the Living God. Please leave me a comment, and I will include it in the list!
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